Who is on the commission?
IT is planned for the commission to have 12 members, but only the chair and eight others have been found so far.
Of the nine named, four are professors and seven are from academia. Two are Labour city councillors and another is a trade unionist.
» Prof Tim Cole is the chair of the commission. He is a Professor of Social History at the University of Bristol, and also Director of the Brigstow Institute. » Dr Madge Dresser, associate professor of history at UWE, before becoming honorary professor of history at Bristol Uni, has, for decades, been at the forefront of Bristol confronting its past, especially in terms of the history of Atlantic slavery.
» Dr Shawn Sobers, a filmmaker, photographer, writer and lecturer.
» Prof Alan Bogg, one of Bristol’s leading law professors.
» Prof David Olusoga - perhaps the best known commissioner, Prof Olusoga lives in Bristol, but is a history professor at the University of Manchester, author and TV presenter.
» Dr Joanna Burch-Brown. a philosophy lecturer at the University of Bristol, she has a particular interest in Bristol’s slave trade past.
» Estella Tincknell, an associate professor in film and culture at UWE, also a Labour city councillor, representing Lockleaze since 2013.
» Helen Godwin, one of only two commissioners who are not academics, Cllr Godwin was elected a city councillor for Southmead in May 2016.
» Nigel Costley, the other non-academic, is the regional secretary of the TUC in the south west.